Multiple Choice Questions

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Thermococcus, Methanococcus and Methanobacterium are groups of

  • Bacteria containing a cytoskeleton and all membrane-bound organelles

  • Archaebacteria with peptidoglycan in their cell wall

  • Archaebacteria that consists of protein homologous to eukaryotic core histones

  • Most advanced type of bacteria


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Archaebacteria that consists of protein homologous to eukaryotic core histones

Archaebacteria are the most primitive and ancient bacterial species.

Key characteristic features are:

(i) Lack of peptidoglycan in the cell wall instead pseudomurein is present.

(ii) Lipids in cell membrane have a different structure than in all other organisms.

(iii) They lack membrane-bound organelles.


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If the free energy change of a reaction is greater than zero, then the reaction is

  • Spontaneous

  • Non-spontaneous

  • At equilibrium

  • Endothermic


Which of the following sequences represent a possible pathway in the production of a secretory protein?

  • Rough ER → Secretory vesicle → Ribosome → Golgi apparatus

  • Ribosome → Rough ER → Golgi apparatus → Secretory vesicle

  • Secretory vesicle → Golgi apparatus → Ribosomes → Rough ER

  • Rough ER → Ribosomes → Secretory vesicles → Golgi appratus


Which of the following is the most primitive ancestor of man?

  • Ramapithecus

  • Homo habilis

  • Australopithecus

  •  Homo sapiens neanderthalensis


Independent assortment of gene occurs due to the orientation of chromosomes at

  • Metaphase-I of mitosis

  • Metaphase-I of meiosis

  • Metaphase-II of meiosis

  • Any phase of the cell division


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The mitotic cell cycle is divided typically into four phases; G1, S, G2 and M. Considering a mitotic cycle time of 18 hrs; the distribution of period of time (in hrs) for each of these phases will be

  • G1 S G2 M
    1 3 5 9
  • G1 S G2 M
    9 1 3 5
  • G1 S G2 M
    9 5 3 1
  • G1 S G2 M
    3 5 9 1

The enzyme hexokinase which catalysis glucose to a glucose-6-phosphate in glycolysis is inhibited by glucose-6-phosphate. This is an example of

I. Competitive inhibition

II. non-competitive inhibition

III. feedback allosteric inhibition

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

  • I and II

  • I and III

  • Only III

  • All of these


Organisms who are able to freely interbreed producing fertile off-springs and having a similar blueprint for making these organisms are referred to as

  • Species

  • Tribe

  • Genus

  • Sub-genus


The non-disjunction, in meiosis may result is extra copy of a chromosome in a sperm cell. During which phase the above phenomenon may occur?

  • Prophase-I, prophase-II

  • Prophase-I, prophase-II

  • Anaphase-I, anaphase-II

  • Anaphase-I, telophase-II


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 A connecting link between plant and animal kingdom is

  • Paramecium

  • Chlamydomonas

  • Chlorella

  • Euglena